Labeling-machine.



E. JAGENRERG,

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APPLICATION FILED APR. H5; 1915: v a

' Patented Feb, 238, 916.

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, Patented Feb. 29, 1916.

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E. JAGENBERG.

LABEUNG MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED APR.16, I915. i i-1 1 78a E. JAGENBERG.

LABELING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 16, I915.

Patented Feb. 29, 1916.

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LABETLIING-MCHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 16, 1915. Serial Flo. 21,646.

' the roller for'transii-zrring the labels to the oil in Fig. 1).- In. the eyes 6 of these brook-- articles to be labeled. The new supporting arrangement allows of drawing particularly large labels in reliable and. very rapid manner from under the pile. The new design of the transfer roller allows of pasting particularly large labels smooth and cleanly in a reliable and'rapid manner...

My inventioh comprises, besides those hereinbefore mentioned, also other features, which shall be more particularly described in' the following description and be spool lied in the claims.

lo the accompanying drawing the labeling machine according to the present invention is exemplified in a. constructional form.

Figure 1 is side elevation of the mecl'iine. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section through the machine on the line A-B in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a. side elevation of the supporting arrangement. Fig. 4- shows the arrangement;according to Fig. 3 in a different position. Fig. 5 is an elevation of a part of the arrangement shown in Figs. 3 and 4:. Fig. 6 is a section through the rollers.

On the body 1 of the machine are fitted two standards 2, which have bracket arms 3 extending at the top to both sides. These brackets 3 one connectedwith each other by means of rods 4 and shafts 5 (shown broken ets 3 are fitted studs 7 which carry at the top guide rails 8 for a slide 9 sliding on'them. On the slide Vertical plates 11 are secured by means of adjustable angles 10, and said plates 11 project through the/slide. These plates 11 form a vertical shaft, the inside Width of which can be readily varied by adjusting the angles. n either end of the two shafts is fitted a cam 12 and to each one end of the said shafts 5 is fitted a lever 13 and at the other end a lever 14 respectively, which is coupled by a rod 15 hinged to it to the 'secondlever 14. By rocking the one or United States specification 860,148.

the other lever both shafts 5, and thereby also the cams 12 are revolved, so that the guides 8 bearing on them are raised and lowered. To the slide 9 are fitted two outwardly extending arms 16, to the ends of which two rods 17 are linked, which are .movably coupled to two, levers 18. The levers 18 are pivotally fitted to the standards 2 and are provided with revoluble rollers 19 which bear against two cam disks Qifitted to the shaft 20 journaled in the standards 2.

To the ends of the one rod 4 are fitted two arms 22 which are coupled by means of long springs-23 with the upward bent ends 24 of bars 25 provided at the for end of the slide 9. These springs 23 draw the slide to the one side, pressing the rollers 19 against the cam disks 21. At two opposite walls 11 boll cranks 27 are journaled between cars 26, and

. the downward pointing arms of said bell cranks have tongues 28, the other being Patented Feb. 2%., ddllfi.

linked to bars 29, which are likewise held by aid of straps 30 hinged thereto to the cars 26. In the bars 29 are fitted pins 31, at the ends of which rollers 32 are iournaled. These rollers 32 bear during the reciprocating travel of slide 9 on cam'rails 33 (Figs. 2 and 5) which are secured to the slides 34 traveling in guides held to the standards 52 by means of pins 36 The slides 34- carry below rollers 37 which bear against com disks 38 fitted to shaft 20. The said cam rails 33 are coupled to arms 39 fitted to guides 35, by means of springs 40, which tend to draw the slides 34 downward. To the underside 9 are secured pillars 4:1, which hold below a rack 42. This rack engages in gears 43, which are secured to shafts 1-1 running in brackets fitted to the guide rails 8. The shafts 44: have about their middle rollerlike, cylindrical enlargements 46, the upper contact line of which is at the same level with the tongues 28. The walls 11 which extend beyond the shafts 44 possess small lugs 47 projecting between the enlarge ments 4:6. H

On the shaft 20, which carries a drivmg pulley 4-8, is fitted a gear wheel 49, wmcn.

meshes with another gear wheel 50 fitted to the shaft 51, likewise journaled in the standards 2. On the shafts 20 and 51 sectional rollers are fitted as are disclosed by t e n shaft 20 the segment, 52 is held by the disks 53, and on shaft 51 the segment 54 is held by disks 55. Against the segment 52 bears an adjustably journaled roller 56 and against disposed at both sides of the table, and the the lateral a roller 58 dipping into the gum vessel 57, from which latter roller'58 the surplus gum is scraped off by an adjustable ledge 59. In the disks 55 a shaft 60 is journaled to the outer end of which is fitted an arm 61 with a roller 62, which bears against a cam disk 63 fitted to shaft 51. Between the disks 55 several hooked arms 64 and levers 65 are fitted to shaft 60 of which the former are pressed against the edge of the segment 54 by springs 66, which are secured to the ends of levers 65 and to a rod 67 fitted in one of the disks 55. i

Behind the segment 54 are arranged rev oluble in the disks 55 several rollers 68 at such a pitch from the shaft 51, that the points of said rollers 68 farthest from the said shaft 51 are equally far from the center-r of shaft 51. If these rollers are of the same diameter their shafts will lie in a,eylindrical plane. The segments 52 and 54 have during their rotation a clearance equal to the thickness of one of the labels to be gummed on, and beneath the lower segment roller a table supported on a pillar 69 is disposed at an adjustable distance equal to theheight of the article to be labeled below the segment 54 when it is in its lowest position. Under the table 70 a slide 71 is arranged, the guides 72 of which are supported by pillars, which are slidably fitted in sleeves 74 of the body 1 of the machine, so that the slide can be raised and lowered. The lower ends of the pillars 73 are hingedly coupled by straps 75 with bell cranks 76, which are pivoted to brackets 77 on the body of themachine, and the free arms of which are coupled with each other by means of a bar 78 hinged thereto. To the one bell crank, furthermore, is hinged a rod 79 the end of which carries a--fork 81 encompassing the shaft and to svhich a roller 82 is fitted, which rides on a. cam disk 83 on shaft 80. A spring 84, which is secured to the rod 78 and to the bedv of the machine presses the roller permanently against the cam disk 83. The shaft 80 journaled in the body of the machine is driven from shaft 86 by means of bevel gears 85, which are again driven by bevel gears 87 from the vertical shaft 88. The shaft 88 is driven from shaft 51 by bevel gears 89; To the shaft 80 is fitted an eccentric 90, which by'means of rod 91 reciprocates lever 92, on the shaft 94 of which,

I journaledin a bracket 93 on the machine body a. long lever 95 is fitted, which is coupled by means of a rod 96 to the one end of the slide 71. The eccentric 90 will there fore reciprocate the slide 71. On the latter are provided several vertical. abutment arms project through a long slot in the table 70. To the guides 72 are revolubly fitted two shafts 98, to which upward .ex tending fiat laths 99 and one each downward This rod has. at its other end a forkiififem is coupled by a strap 134 with a lever-13F, and the two other slides 132 and 133 by brush extending arm 100 are fitted. The -lathe are arms100 ride, when the guides 72 are raised and lowered, on stationary cam rails 101, against which they are pressed by a- 705. spring 102. To the slide 71 are, furthermore, fitted on either side each twolaths 104 held by a pillar 103, in which two bolts." 105 are slidably fitted, which carry onstuds being rigidly connected at the top byv means of across piece 111 and. below by means of a rod 112. The rod 112 isc'oupled} bymeans of a strap 113 with a bellcran 114, which is journaled on a bracket115 and to the other-arm of which a rod 116' is ad justably fitted by means. of a screwjbolt circling the shaft 80, and'on the saidfor is fitted a roller 118, Whiclris pressed by'a spring 119 secured to the rod 116 against a) cam disk 120 fitted to the shaft 80. The cross piece 111 has an arm 121, which bears a guide 122 for a rod 124 weighted below with a heavy plate 123 and two plates 125, to each of which are secured vertioallyad justable, by means of screw bolts two bars 126. To these bars'128 are fitted, which are forced by springs 129 against the bar 124, or, in other words, against each other.

Next to the table 7 0 on the machine body" 1 is secured a bracket'130in which three slides 131, 132 and 133 are arranged'above each other, of which the uppermost slide 131 straps 136 and 137 respectively jointly to the lever 138. The two levers are pivoted. to the machine body and are coupled below by bolts adjustably to rods 139 and 140 respectively, the other ends of which have forks 141 and 142 respectively, encircling shaft 86. On shaft 86 are fitted cam disks 143, 168 against which ride the rollers 144 and 145 respectively fitted to the forks and under action of springs 146 and 147, respectively. To the free end of slide 131 is fitted a plate 148, and the slide 132 also carries a plate 149, to'which a brush 151 is secured by means of a hinge 150, which i 151 is elastically supported in its horizontal position by a spring 152. To the lowermost slide 133 is secured a fork'153, in which a roller'l54 is journaled. GA similar roller 155 is stationarily journaled in.a fork 157. supported by a pillar 156-,iand two rollers 158 are journaled in forks'159 which are fitted to plate 161 supported by a pillar 160. To this plate 161 are fitted ledges 162, which are at the same level with the horizontal 13c gir ers.

tangential plane to the rollers. At the some i is journaled, around which a conveyor belt 167 runs leading to a pulley not shown in p the drawing.

The machine operates in the folio-Win manner: The labels placed into the she'- formed by the plates or walls 11 there rest .on tongues 28,10llers 46 sndthe slightly inwardly curved projections 4?. Thus even very large labels will be so ported by this arrangement in s very relishes manner. The slide- 9 with thepile of'labsls is operated bythe driven cam disks 21 and the'levers 18 and thereby reciprocated. Thereby the rollers i l, 46 are revolved by the reel; 42 and the gears 43 on the upper side in always the same-sense and at the same velocity as the slide, so that the rollers will roll on the lowermost label. The segment rollers, however, continuously revolve in one direction, the segment 52 receiving gum from the roller When at the stroke to the left (Fig. 2) the pile of labels moves over the segment rollers, the segn'ient 52 will roll onthepile of labels, a the lowermost label will be retained by the gum and wrapped onto the segment. 'Therebv the label is drawn from the pile and for assisting this the rollers ride during this movement of the slide 9 on the cam rails 33 so that the bars 29 are raised, and thereby the tongues 28 are swung toward outside. T he shoulders l7 extend but a little only under the edge of the label, so that they will not prevent the individual labels being drawn oil, as their edges will, thereby, bend slightly over. At the return stroke of the label container (to the right in Fig. 2) the segment 52 is below, so that no part of the segment roller will comeinto contact with the pile of labels, and the. cam. rails 33 are now drawn downwardby springs 40, as the cam disk 38 admits of this. During the return stroke of the slide 9 the tongues, thus, re main under the pile of labels. The label which has stuck to the segment 52 is transferred to the lower segment roller by the grippers 64 seizing the frontsedge oi the label'and pressing it against the segment ill.

'lVhen the segment rollers continue their revolution the label is, therefore, peeled oil from the segment and taken up by the lower segment roller so that it lies there with the gunnned side outside on the segment 54 and the rollers 68. The grippers.

ward the segment rollers" the guides 72 are lifted by the cam disk 83, while duringdts' The articles planed on the right hand end "of the table (Fig. 12), whioh are to be labeled,

will, therefore, be intermittently advanced toward the segment rollers. At the raised position of the slide 71 also the ledges 99 are raised, so that they prevent the articles from slipping side-wise lrom'the table. At the return stroke of the slide 71 the ledges 99 are rocked outward by the cam rails 101, so that the articles to be labeled may be con veniently plaeed on the table T0. The lower segment roller travels at its under side in the same direction in which the articles are advanced. The label on the low): segment roller will therefore be applied in the article advancing under it. The ippers are then lifted oil by the cum l .lr 33 so that the label held by the 1* The slide 71 r advanc L I than the (Jit'OlllTl antral velocitv of the segment ore the label, which has aln its front edge to the rollers. Theiready been stool;

' article will be carried along by the latter yond the article will be supported by the 4 ledges 106 in a horizontalposition. At the end of its advance under the segment rollers the article passes beneath the stamp 123, which, when. the article is at rest, is pressed against the same by the bars 110 being lowered by means of the cam disk 1%, so that the freshly gummed on label is pressed on tightly. At the same time the brushes 128 more downi'ard and thereby smooth the projecting parts of the label over and against the sides of the article. At the next advance of the slide 71 this article is thenpnslied in front oi? the slides 131, 132, .133 and onto the rollers 154, 155, and then, when the article is at rest, the slides 132, 133 are 7 advanced by means of the cam disk 168-, so that the roller 15% is moved toward the roller. 155 and the brush 151 folds the end'of the label hanging down along the one side of the article, over and brushes it against the bottom ,of the article. Then the plate 148 of the advancing slide 131 bears against the article and pushes it sidewise over-the rollers 158 onto the conveyor belt 167. Thereby the front ledge 162 presses the end of'the' label'lianging down between the rollers T55 on the one side of thearticle, "again's'tqthe' bottom of the latter and, the

"rollers 8smooth down this end, so that the "article reaching the conveyor belt is completely'labeledz: Y I

The several qoperations at the various stages are simultaneous, so'that a very rapid work is obtained, When the machine is to run idle, the pile of labels'i's lifted by reversing the lever 13, and the earns 12 will lift the guides of slide 9;, i

It is'obvious that various changes may be made with respect to the construction of the whereby the. labels are pasted to the said articles and smoothed down by the said rollers.

2. A labeling machine consisting of a re: ciprocating slide, a label container on saidc slide, tongues, fitted to levers and engaging beneath said label container, means for rocking the levers with the tongues, a rack on I the label cont liner, revoluble rollers, on which the pile of labels rests, gears, attached to said rollers and engaging 1n said rack, and

means for drawing the label from the pile and applying it to the article to be labeled. 3. A labeling machine consisting of a reciprocating label container, rockably fitted tongues, rising and falling cam rails adapted to remove said tongues from the pile of labels, supporting rollers for the pile oflabels, said rollers adapted to revolve forward and backward at the reciprocation of the label container, and means for drawing the label from the pile and for applying it to the article to be labeled.

4. A labeling machine consisting of a reciprocating label container, means for sup- 7 porting the labels in said container, means fordrawing the label from the pile by aid of gum, means for applying the label to the articles to be labeled, a table, onto which the said articlesare placed, rising and falling slide guides, in said guides a reciprocating slide, dogs on said slide, said dogs, when in raised position of the slide, projecting through slots in said table in anupward direction.

5. A labeling machine consisting of a reciprocating label container, tongues adapted to be rocked aside, for supporting the pile of labels, rising and falling cam rails for oper ating said tongues, a reckon said label 66h tainer, rollers, 'on which the said label container rides during its reciprocation, gears 70 attached to said rollers, a revoluble segment roller adapted to draw the label from the. pile, means for applying gum to said roller on its segment, a second revolving roller,

having one segment and behind the same several revolublc rollers, and adapted to draw the label from the first segment roller, grippers at the second roller, adapted to seize the front edge of the label in drawing it from the first roller, a table with l'ongitudinal slots onto which the articles to be labeled are placed, rising and falling guides, in said guides a reciprocating slide, dogs on said slide, said dogs projecting at a raised positidn, of said slide through the slots in .sa'id table, brushes adaptedto be moved up and down andto fold Wide labels over and against the sides of the articles to, be labeled and to smooth them-down there, a heavy "stamp, adapted to belowered onto the said articles and'hdld thein tight, a displaceable roller and several stationary rollers onto which the said articles pass, a brush adapted to fold overwlde labels'also against the bottom oijsa'id articles, jneans for simultaneously operating the 'brush and the displaceable roller, a slide adapted to push the said articles from the stationary rollers, said stationary rollers adapted to thereby fold over the label against the bottom ofthe article.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

EMIL JAGENBERG. [1,. 5.] 

